Ok, so this happened a few days ago, but I was lazy and haven't posted it. Scott stayed after work with some coworkers last Thursday and played paintball. I guess they were playing in an area with a bunch of old concrete foundations. He saw a guy on the inside of one of these foundations and went after him. Scott didn't realize the guy was standing on some stairs and so Scott didn't land very well when he jumped in the foundation area and lost his balance. His right elbow knocked on the edge of the concrete as he came down.
I don't like paying for things that don't need to be paid for, so my limited medical knowledge told me that based on what I saw, not much could be done to facilitate healing. My father is in Denmark right now, and he's usually my go-to medical person. However, my sister just finished her residency in ER medicine, and so she was a perfect person to ask what we should do. I explained that Scott could move his arm just fine with really no pain. He was just a little stiff. It was, however, extremely painful to touch a certain spot on his elbow (and still is). So, we decided he probably chipped part of his ulna, one of the bones in the lower arm, on the u-shaped part that hooks around the bone in the upper arm. My sister said since his range of motion is fine they would probably cast it just for comfort sake. Scott decided to just deal with it since they wouldn't do anything to improve healing. So, poor Scott can't lean on his elbow and has found just how often you place even a small amount of weight on the pointy part of your elbow.
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